The reports of the impact of
Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines are startling, but not that surprising
when the scope of the storm
is described as
being hundreds of miles across carrying sustained winds of 147mph, gusts of 170
mph, and waves as high as 45ft. It seems almost impossible to imagine such
forces at work until you see the photos and see the devastation. Here's hoping
as much help can come to the victims of this as quickly as possible, as food and
water are immediate issues, and one can also only hope that the dire projections
of loss of life from this turn out to be overestimated.

Cutter wrote on Nov 10, 2013, 21:23:I know all this stuff because it's been my dream over the last decade to get off the grid and into alternative housing. It'll happen one of these days, soon I hope.

And a few months later your emaciated corpse will be found inside an abandoned school bus. You can "know" everything. Until you apply it to real life your word is shit.

That seems unreasonably harsh for no real reason. Who the hell pissed in your Wheaties? Seems like a fairly reasonable ambition to me. I grew up in the sticks, my dad has gone off the grid, it isn't exactly nuclear physics. Just hard work.

Google Christopher McCandless. There's a million kids just like him and I encounter them every day where I work. None have done more than spend a few nights in a designated campground. Life without cell phones, video games, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing is too much for most to handle. I somehow doubt Cutter is any different. Can anybody here handle it? I don't think so.